The Hindsight Department · Gameweek 5 · 2026-27
Gameweek 5 in hindsight: 399 FPL managers across 23 mini-leagues
Gameweek 5, 2026-27: 399 managers in 23 public mini-leagues covered by Fantasy Pundit averaged 47.8 points. The highest score was 85 and the leader changed in 5 of 23 leagues.
GW5: Hit-takers finished 6.6 points behind after costs. The spreadsheet was right and nobody enjoyed it.
The scores
What the week was worth
- Average Gameweek score
- 47.8
- Median score
- 47.0
- Highest score
- 85
- Lowest score
- 20
65 points separated the best and worst weeks in the sample. Same fixtures, same deadline, very different hobbies.
The table
Who moved, and who merely talked about it
- Leagues with a new leader
- 5 of 23
- Weekly top scorer already led the league
- 1 of 23
- Biggest climb
- 20 places
- Biggest fall
- 16 places
Somewhere, a manager dropped 16 places in a single Gameweek and is now calling it a long-term project.
The gaps
How close it is at the top
- Median lead at the top
- 9.0 points
- Leagues led by 10 points or fewer
- 13 of 23
- Average top-to-bottom gap in a league
- 35.8 points
- Widest top-to-bottom gap
- 53 points
A ten-point lead is one captain decision. Nobody at the top is relaxed, whatever they say in the group chat.
Week on week
Transfer hits and form swings
- Managers with consecutive editions
- 226 in 17 leagues
- Took a transfer hit
- 14 of 226 (6%)
- Points spent on hits
- 60
- Hit-takers’ average before deductions
- 45.6
- Hit-takers’ average after deductions
- 41.3
- Everyone else’s average
- 47.9
- Biggest week-on-week rise
- 36 points
- Biggest week-on-week drop
- 70 points
After paying for their transfers, hit-takers averaged 41.3 against 47.9 for everyone else. Patience remains annoyingly effective.
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